The most famous book on politics ever written, the prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Harvey mansfield, machiavellis political science, american. The first edition of the novel was published in 15, and was written by niccolo machiavelli. Written in eiffel using the sdl and designed to run on linux and windows. An introduction to machiavellis the prince, part 1 rethink. This book is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a.
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